All I know is if we do moveout, there better be a few of the others around us. We're not ready tobreak away yet." Oh I know the feeling. Just imagine ...he day when it comes. I know it'scoming and now dread it. We're like brothers and more, you know. I knowwe'll all keep in touch after college." I hope so but life gets in the way. You say that and then turn around inten years and realize you haven't seen each other one time." Matt, you know I wouldn't care if we lived next to each other. I'll be. He wasn't asleep for long. After 20 short minutes of peaceful slumber, there was a knock at the front door.He quickly jumped out of bed and threw on some rock-styled clothes, as usual. Just some baggy jeans and a Deftones t-shirt, all rather scruffy and all black. That was all he needed on, so he scampered sleepily down the stairs and answered the door.It was Aphrodite, his girlfriend, she was tall, but shorter than him by several inches. She wore some heavy goth makeup, and her round white. ”He said nothing, but I could see his raised arm slowly lowering the axe.“I suppose your father didn’t treat you very well,” I continued. When he said nothing, I ventured further. “I suppose that in a sense, you are now free of him.”He set the axe down, leaned it against the wall. His untrusting eyes were still glued to me.“I’m sorry that you had to live like this. It’s over.”I could see a tear forming in his eye. Not a tear of mourning, but release.“You deserve a better father than the one. We negotiated, after she threatened to run away from home last year, and outfitted the carriage house for her. She seems to have settled down since then, having her "privacy," and she's doing well at school, we don't see her getting into any trouble, she's not hanging out with the "wrong kind," so we let it be. I miss her in the house, but we see her for breakfast and most dinners, but other than that, she stays in the carriage house." Must be kinda sad for you, though," I said. "You two seemed.